What do "flutters" feel like?

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violaforme wrote:

I never felt "flutters" with my first baby. I actually got pretty annoyed with this term because I didn't understand it and still don't! The first thing I ever felt was an actual kick. This time around I'm feeling something but idk if it's all in my head. It feels like a very subtle tickling or crawling feeling inside and down very low. I don't feel it all the time, which is making me think this might be the flutters people talk about. I have felt 3 little kicks too over the past week. I'm 17 weeks and I felt the first kicks at 18 weeks with my son.

I think I've only felt that "butterfly flutter" a few times but mine are more of a rolling sensation on the right side of my abdomen. kind of like the baby is turning or doing somersaults. And then sometimes on the left side I feel the popcorn popping sensation from the inside.

My first pregnancy I didn’t feel anything until the kicks either. This one I started to feel what feels like someone lightly tickling me from the inside. The first time it happened I compared it to feeling a spider crawling on me, but on the inside of my stomach lol

Ive been feeling little things since around 15 weeks myself and it feels like he does a little sommersault and that’s it. I’ve been told it’s just gas but I know it’s baby! The past 2 days (17wks) I’ve felt a similar sensation but more like the fish analogy above in the mornings (just happened as I was reading these :)) so I’m really believing that I’ve been feeling the baby! Time will tell

that’s how it feels to me! I’ve been feeling tiny tickles for a couple weeks but last night baby was super excited as I was eating dinner - the flutters lasted about 30 seconds and were a bit stronger than the previous weeks. It actually made me laugh until I cried because it tickled so much! 😂

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